Construction of bedsteads or bed-frames.



No. 714,924. Patented Dec. 2, I902.

C. S. LLOYD.

CONSTRUCTION OF BEDSTEADS 0B BED FRAMES.

Application filed Jan. 27, 1902.;

(No Modal.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

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C. S. LLOYD.

Patented Dec. 2, I902 CONSTRUCTION OF BEDSTEADS 0R BED FRAMES.

(Application filed .m';. 27, 1902. (No Model.)

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CYRUS SING LLOYD, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ISAAC CIIORLTON, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

CONSTRUCTION OF BEDSTEADS OR BED-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 71 1,92 1, dated December 2, 1902. Application filed January 2'7, 1902. Serial No. 91,476. (No model.)

To all whom it 12mg concern: be secured to a tubular side member f, is

Be it known that I, CYRUS SING LLOYD, shown with an angle-piece h cast thereto. 5 5 wire expert, a subject of the King of Great This is to facilitate the connection of the Britain and Ireland,residingat Nelson street, bracket to a corresponding angle-iron side 5 Weaste, Manchester, in the county of Lanrail. Fig. 6 shows the bracket (1 with a simicaster, England, have invented certain new lar angle-piece h, but in a reversed position and useful Improvements in the Constructo that in Fig. 5. This is to provide for cases tion of Bedsteads and Bed-Frames, (for which where the angle-iron is used in an inverted I have made application in Great Britain, No. position. to 19,863, and dated the 5th day of October,190l,) hen erecting the bedstead, the bracket 61 of which the following is a specification. on the side rail is slipped down within the My invention relates to the construction of bracket on the upright, and as this proceeds 65 bedsteads and bed-frames, and relates to imthe diameter of the circular cavity is gradu proved means for connecting the members of ally lessened, owing to the action of the oppo- I5 the bedstead together at the four corners. site inclined dovetailed abutments c e. The The accompanying two sheets of drawings brackets a. d and the upright b and side rail f are attached to illustrate my invention. are thus securely locked together, the tubu- Figure 1 shows in elevation my invention lar upright being firmly gripped by the circuapplied to the tubular upright and side rail, lar walls of the two brackets. No rocking of 20 the parts being disconnected. Fig. 2 is a simithe parts is thus possible, and the connection lar view with the parts connected. Fig. 3 is is not only secure, but the uprights are held a plan of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 2. quite square with the side rails. As the point Figs. 5 and 6 are modified constructions of of connection now encircles or embraces the one of the dovetail brackets. tubular upright, there is no leverage exerted 25 In carrying my invention into effect-I proto distort the upright or disturb it from the vide abracket a, secured to the tubular upvertical. right I), which carries the end rails of the bed- My invention consists in the provision of stead, the bracket Cb being bored out halfmeans whereby the loose bracket d, when slid round or more to lit the tube. Instead of beinto engagement with the fixed bracket a, is

30 ing a separate bracket secured to the tube,I drawn toward the tubular upright, contractmayin someinstances cast or form the bracket ing the circle and gripping the upright, and a in one with the corner upright 17. At each thereby being securely locked in position, so side of the bracket I form an abutment 0, prothat the means of effecting this may Vary in jecting inward, the inner sides of which gradpoint of detail.

5 uallyinclineinward or are formed withadove- I declare that what I claim istail from the top of the bracket to the bottom. In combination with an upright, a bracket I provide another bracket d, also bored out partially encircling the same and secured o half-round or less, with abutments 6 projectthereto, said bracket having its arms proing outward to engage with the abutments c vided with inwardly-directed inclined abut- 0 on the bracket a, secured to the upright 17, the ments, the side rail and a bracket secured abutments having inclines or dovetails oppothereto and having outwardly extending sitely arranged to the inclines on the bracket abutments arranged at an inclination verti- 5 a. When these abutments are brought into cally to fit the inclined abutments on the engagement, the two brackets are locked tobracket of the upright, the said outwardly- 5 gether, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and proextending abutments on the side rail extendvide a circular cavity or thereabout for the ing in between the arms of the bracket, subtube. The bracket d is secured to the end of stantially as described. the tubular or angle-iron side member f. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my In Figs. 1 to 4 I show the bracket d with a hand in presence of two witnesses. 5o rounded plug g, by means of which it can be CYRUS SING LLOYD.

riveted to the side tube Witnesses:

In Fig. 5 the bracket d instead of being pro- JOSHUA ENTWISLE,

vided with a circular plug whereby it can RICHARD WEBSTER IBBERSON. 

